Performance and installation "Between Us Skin"

Exhibition "Sharing intimacies. (Ex-?)architects explore the self"
21 May - 27 June 2024
Delft University of Technology
Curated by Javier Arpa Fernández and Kornelis Fragakis.

Beyond the usual focus on art related to design, the exhibition (organized by BK Public Programs) explores art and intimacy. While recognizing the value of art interventions in the public realm, the exhibition engages with intimacy as a form of communication, that not only includes but also requires a sense of community.

Sharing Intimacies features five artists with backgrounds in architecture who will offer unique perspectives and expressions on themes such as human connection, body, identity, empathy, and storytelling.

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“Open Studio” in a Kitchen in Madrid

Starting the new year strong! With a selection of works on paper, and a live-drawing session, I gathered in Madrid some of my favorite people among colors, lines, and food. In the kitchen, literally.

The showroom of Kitchen for Life generously hosted my open studio. The colorful stories of the series “Liquid Moments”, “Periscope”, and “Body Parts” were boldly fitting the themes of nutritious art and social togetherness.

Exhibition “Einsichten: Visarte Zürich & Friends"

Visarte Zurich is once again organizing a major exhibition at the Photobastei at the end of the year. Entitled "Insights 2023: Visarte Zürich & Friends", the exhibition brings together over 200 artists and works that provide an insight into Zurich's diverse art scene. It is curated by Nicolas Bischof, Tanja Breu, Clare Goodwin, Lorenzo E. Metzler, Sandi Paucic, Len Schaller.

I participate with a ceramic sculpture from the project-in-progress “Unsere Zeit” (Our Time).

The exhibition is part of the tradition of annual exhibitions that Visarte Zurich has initiated and successfully organized for several years. The exhibition brings a presentation of works by Visarte Zürich members, and additional guests, exhibition spaces and individual positions who have been invited to present their own curatorial program.

New curated selection of drawings from the series "Periscope"

Between 7.07.2023 and 21.08.2023 an available selection drawings from the ritualistic series “Periscope” are on view in a dedicated page: Little Absurdities collection.

“Little Absurdities” is based on the myriad of tiny details always present in the drawings of the series. Dreamy characters, absurd objects, body parts, and omnipresent cultural symbols are some of the stories inside each of these universes depicted on paper.

All drawings of the collection “Little Absurdities” are available for purchase at a special price.

Bang Bang exhibition. Museum Tinguely, Basel

BANG BANG – translocal hi:stories of performance art

8 June – 21 August 2022
An exhibition project by Revolving Histories/Performance Chronik Basel and Museum Tinguely

I participate in this vast and exciting exhibition and series of events brought by Window of Fame.

About BANG BANG (source: Museum Tinguely) :
All summer long, Museum Tinguely will be celebrating performance art in the show BANG BANG - translocal hi:stories of performance art. At the heart of this process-oriented exhibition is the Swiss performance scene, its players, and its networks, although the programme will be international in character.

Private viewing at Ruettimann Contemporary, Zurich

I am showing a selection of works on the weekend of March 3 & 4, at their pop-up space at Weststrasse 145 in Wiedikon.

The presentation will include drawings from my "Periscope" series, the recent ceramic work "Ceramic World N.2", and the altar piece "Ruega por Nosotros" that I created in Spain in 2019. This work has never been exhibited before.

Address
Pop Up: Westrasse 145, 8003 Zurich

Private viewing times
- Friday March 3, from 15 - 20 H
- Saturday March 4, from 12 - 19 H


/ Wine & prosecco will be served on both days as long as available.
/ The artist will be present.

The gallery is concurrently featuring works by Aoife Dunne, Claudia Kübler, Simon Lederberger, Hannah Parr, and Valentina Pini across the two floors of their 150m2 space.

* Additional viewing times by appointment.
www.ruettimanncontemporary.com

“Ceramic World N.2”, 2021

Ritual of release for "What is Our Dream?", Helmhaus Zurich

Once the exhibition closed, and the series of performative exchanges “What is Our Dream?” therefore finished, something had to be done to release the 76 dreams that had been shared, invented and produced during those 17 performance sessions.
Upon conversations with some of the “dreamers”, as well as with curator and museum director Simon Maurer, we made a ritual of release in three acts letting them go into the air, water and fire.

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Exhibition El Cuerpo de Nuestro Tiempo / The Body of Our Time

Space 2B
September 12th - October 12th 2019
* Opening 12th September 2019
Calle Benigno Soto 14
28002, Madrid, España

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"New languages, environments, cultures, ways of socializing... I have taken my body and my head to new routines over the years, in an almost schizophrenic search for, or escape from, an identity that I cannot identify. Born and raised in Madrid, I have lived in New York, Amsterdam, Barcelona, London, Shanghai, Brussels... and now in Zurich. I can't discern if I belong here or there, if I'm returning or leaving, every time I come to Madrid, or each time I return to Zurich."

In El Cuerpo de Nuestro Tiempo the artist Alicia Velázquez (Madrid, 1969) proposes to temporarily inhabit the space in which series of ritualistic works establish a dialogue with and through time. Quotidian, intimate and also unknown presences, mirrors of a foreign identity that poses questions while searching for her own.

“Nuevos idiomas, entornos, culturas, maneras de socializar… He llevado mi cuerpo y mi cabeza a nuevas rutinas a lo largo de los años, en una - casi esquizofrénica - búsqueda, o escapada, de una identidad que no consigo identificar. Nacida y crecida en Madrid, he vivido en Nueva York, Ámsterdam, Barcelona, Londres, Shanghai, Bruselas… y ahora en Zúrich. No llego a discernir si pertenezco aquí o allá, si estoy de vuelta o yéndome, cada vez que vengo a Madrid, o cada vez que regreso a Zúrich.”

En El Cuerpo de Nuestro Tiempo la artista Alicia Velázquez (Madrid, 1969) propone habitar temporalmente el espacio en el que series de trabajos ritualísticos establecen un diálogo con y a través del tiempo. Presencias cotidianas, íntimas y también desconocidas, espejos de una identidad ajena que lanza preguntas mientras se busca a sí misma.